14•08•26
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed Up Zombies
14 August, 2026 @5:00pm Free, The Green Room
Donal Ryan in Conversation
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OTL is delighted to welcome Donal Ryan to the festival to talk about his work. Show includes Lunch.
Donal Ryan’s work has been published in over 20 languages to major critical acclaim.
The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; it was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was voted ‘Irish Book of the Decade’. His fourth novel, From a Low and Quiet Sea, was longl-isted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018, and won the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature.
His novel, Strange Flowers, was voted Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and was a number one bestseller.
His seventh book, The Queen of Dirt Island, was published by Doubleday in August 2022 and was an instant number one bestseller.It is an uplifting celebration of fierce, loyal family love and the powerful stories that last generations.
‘A life-enhancing talent’ – Sebastian Barry
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